Ecological Status Assessment of Transitional Waters

Coastal transitional ecosystems include a wide range of morphological features-i.e., lagoons, wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and so on. According to the Ramsar Convention, "they are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems" and are continually "degraded and converted to other us...

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Other Authors: FACCA, Chiara (Editor)
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Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
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520 |a Coastal transitional ecosystems include a wide range of morphological features-i.e., lagoons, wetlands, estuaries, deltas, and so on. According to the Ramsar Convention, "they are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems" and are continually "degraded and converted to other uses". To protect and restore these highly valuable ecosystems, knowledge of their processes and the assessment of their ecological conditions under anthropogenic pressures is of fundamental importance. The present book contains eight original research papers and a review that provide useful tools to understand the structure and function of transitional waters worldwide. The results allow us to assess the impact of anthropogenic activities and inform stakeholders on the actions that can be taken to manage them. The papers in this book provide different ecological approaches to investigate some main impacts: - benthic and nekton communities were studied to assess the impact of eutrophication and salinity changes; - biological processes in carbon dioxide fluxes were assessed in the framework of climate change; - nekton communities were discussed in relation to habitat morphological degradation; - the role of invasive alien species was considered. 
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653 |a SWRO desalination 
653 |a brine discharge 
653 |a osmotic stress 
653 |a coastal monitoring 
653 |a impacted coastal systems 
653 |a biological communities 
653 |a transitional waters 
653 |a community matrix 
653 |a qualitative model 
653 |a species interactions 
653 |a freshwater flow 
653 |a low salinity zone 
653 |a simulation 
653 |a ecological assessment 
653 |a adaptive management 
653 |a biological processes 
653 |a air-sea CO2 exchange flux 
653 |a net ecosystem production 
653 |a potential CO2 emissions 
653 |a trophic status 
653 |a Changjiang River estuary plume 
653 |a nekton 
653 |a restoration 
653 |a salinity 
653 |a predictive models 
653 |a biodiversity 
653 |a spatial variation 
653 |a sediments 
653 |a confinement 
653 |a saprobity 
653 |a organic enrichment 
653 |a coastal lagoons 
653 |a Mediterranean sea 
653 |a Macrophyte Quality Index (MaQI), transitional waters 
653 |a uncertainty analysis 
653 |a confidence interval 
653 |a Kernel standard error 
653 |a macroinvertebrates 
653 |a eutrophication 
653 |a organic pollution 
653 |a invasive alien species 
653 |a aquatic angiosperms 
653 |a environmental restoration 
653 |a ecological status 
653 |a Venice Lagoon 
653 |a coastal lagoon 
653 |a morphological alterations 
653 |a habitat conservation 
653 |a killifishes 
653 |a gobies 
653 |a Mediterranean Sea 
653 |a CO2 flux 
653 |a desalinization 
653 |a benthic fauna 
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